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Our second quarterly meeting of 2019 will be held on Monday night, April 8th, 2019 at the Whole Hog Cafe’s Cantrell Road Location at 2516 Cantrell Road. This is in the same shopping center as Office Depot and the Riverdale 10 Theater. Our guest speaker will be Keith Monahan, Chief Meteorologist for KARK Channel 4. We will begin eating at 5:30 p.m. with some famous Whole Hog barbecue and then begin our regular meeting and program at 6:30 p.m. Come and join us–the whole family is welcome and you do not have to have to be be licensed amateur radio operator to attend. We are expecting a lot of people to attend as “Chief Keith” will be announcing the meeting during his weather segments on Channel 4. Note: Keith Monahan’s attendance will be contingent upon weather conditions at the time of the meeting. We understand! As usual, there will be a $1 raffle drawing for prizes at the end of the meeting.

If you missed it, our first quarterly meeting of 2019 was held on Monday night, January 14th at Larry’s Pizza on Highway 5 in Bryant. We had excellent attendance and this was the first meeting chaired by our newly elected president, Charles Nix, WD5JPG.

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For quite some time, we have considered establishing standard simplex frequencies for use within the CAUHF Group (and for anyone else who wishes to play along with us). All of these frequencies fall within the ARRL Band Plan for VHF and UHF. Here’s what we’ve come up with thus far. We will not use PL tones on any simplex frequency (unless it becomes necessary in the future). During special events, disaster drills, etc., we can refer to these as “tactical channels”. Please program all of these simplex frequencies into your mobile radios and HT’s. You never know when you might need them.

VTAC Channel

VHF

UTAC Channel

UHF

VTAC-1 National Simplex

146.520 MHz

UTAC-1 National Simplex

446.000 MHz

VTAC-2

146.535 MHz

UTAC-2

446.025 MHz

VTAC-3

146.550 MHz

UTAC-3

446.050 MHz

VTAC-4

146.565 MHz

UTAC-4

446.075 MHz

VTAC-5

146.580 MHz

UTAC-5

446.100 MHz

Some folks just pick any old frequency for simplex but that really is not wise. If you are not careful, you can accidentally pick a repeater frequency. Also, you must remember that VHF simplex frequencies need to be at least 15kHz apart and UHF simplex frequencies need to be at least 25kHz apart (as shown above) to avoid interfering with each other. We began with the VHF National Calling Frequency as the baseline at 146.520, then for each succeeding “channel”, we went up 15kHz. We also began with the UHF National Calling Frequency as the baseline at 446.000, then for each succeeding “channel”, we went up 25kHz.

This is the place to come for the latest news and information about the CAUHF Group. Also, don’t forget to check-in to our regular Tuesday Night Net, held every Tuesday evening at 8:00 p.m. on all of the AR Links System Repeaters such as 443.200 in Little Rock, 444.700 in North Little Rock and a dozen or so more around the state. Click on the AR Links System tab above.